Happy birthday echristo

May your code contain only good bits.

Firefox 1.0.4 available

Firefox 1.0.4 has been released (get it from getfirefox.com).  It fixes three Javascript security vulnerabilities that are considered critical; see the Mozilla.org security page for details.

Also, technoshaman clued me in to Tab Mix, a Firefox extension that is basically Tabbrowser Preferences on steroids.  It does everything TBP does, plus a bunch more like letting you re-order tabs by dragging them.  If you liked the tab handling in Galeon, you'll like Tab Mix.  (It even allows you to restore the last complete session with all the tabs you had open when you closed Firefox, if that kinda thing makes your motor run.)  Download it from Mozilla.org (you'll have to save it to disk and manually install it by dragging the XPI file to your Firefox window, since the Mozilla.org folks have disabled automatic extension installation from mozilla.org temporarily until they resolve a possible installation exploit) or install it directly from ExtensionsMirror.

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UPDATE:  I've learned that Tab Mix is suffering from developer-of-the-week syndrome, as it is complex and difficult to maintain.  I've also found that the one important-to-me thing Tabbrowser Preferences does, which Tab Mix does NOT, is allow capturing URLs sent from other applications and open them in a new tab instead of a new window.  You may want to keep these factors in mind before deciding whether or not to use Tab Mix.  For myself, I've decided I don't care enough about any of the extra stuff it does to give up the ability to capture external URLs.  About the only extra feature I found worth turning on was sizing tabs to their label content, and that only partially works.  (To be fair, I didn't try the multi-row tab bar feature.)

PSA: OpenOffice 2.0 beta, 1.1.4 security patch

Beta releases of OpenOffice 2.0 are now available, for those who want to get an advance look at 2.0.

Also, there's a security patch out for OpenOffice 1.1.4, which fixes a heap overflow security hole present in all OpenOffice versions prior to 1.9.95.  This patch fixes ONLY v1.1.4; if you're using an earlier release, you are advised to upgrade to v1.1.4 and then apply the patch.

"We're from the government, and we're here to help."

Yeah, so about that RealID ....

(snagged/relayed from yndy)

Oh yeah, a footnote:  I just uploaded all the chrome for this style to LJ Scrapbook and updated my style to point to it.  Please let me know if you see any anomalies.